Hi,Here,I want to post some update about may Enchanted windows project. I was able to control window using arduino yun’s wi-fi.I was not sure about a actual window so I have tried with thermo Cole model. Here I have used 150 RPM DC geared motor ...
There was a new version of the Arduino IDE, this week was not the best time to download it, so that was left until after the challenge. Due to the modular nature of the design the boards and components could be tested as they were assembled. The...
Planning and ResearchThe project was planned by creating a calendar of the 15 weeks in a spread sheet then mapping the high level tasks to the weeks. Two weeks were left empty to allow for issues and overruns. Critical path items such as the house we...
Putting on the roofOne of the big physical jobs left for Matilda and Hans was putting the roof back on. They realised that they could not do the job by themselves so they wandered down the Adam and Eve Inn to look for volunteers. It turned out that e...
The CottageThe cottage has been extended at the back to house the electronics and below to hide the mechanism. The front window has a new frame to show off the LED temperature indicator. MechanicsThe mechanism is a double ended Watt's link...
The cottage was disassembled so that the base could be painted matt black. This is an old magician's trick to draw the eye away from the base and hidden mechanism underneath.The top panel electronics were also put together with another bit of str...
Cost AnalysisAs well as the components kindly provided by Element14, Atmel and Infineon there were several additional components purchased for this project. These were bought as the project progressed or were already in the spares drawer. Where the o...
The Enchanted Cottage build has been a multi faceted project with electronics, micro-controllers, embedded Linux, woodwork, 3D printing and general assembly challenges. To give you a better idea about how I worked on the project I've made a list ...
It's the last week of the Enchanted Objects design challenge. The Enchanted Player plays, the blogs are blogged.I'm closing with this video. Thank You All!www.youtube.com/watch What's That Enchanted Player A Perpetuum Ebne...
Even if the MagicHat is not sending any sensitive data out on the Internet, it's always important to make communication as secure as possible.For this reason, I will implement HTTPS communication between the web browser and NodeJS running on Ardu...
Following lots of rude interruptions from the Wolf, Hans decided the Arduino Yún's security needed beefing up. After a bit of reading Hans realised that this could be a 16 week design challenge in it's own right. Hans' plan of action for the loc...
Happy Fathers Day everyone (Especially my Dad), So my Dad is real happy with what I have done with the temperature control. He has now challenged me with the issue of the thermostat being across the room from the clock. He has asked me to have t...
Whilst Hans was coding Matilda was fine tuning the mechanism and finishing the housing. When the magnet housings had been tested their positions had put Hans and Matilda a bit far back into the cottage. The magnet carriers were redesigned so that the...
Unfortunately, I was unable to create a video to show you guys how beautifully my magic lamp was working. When I asked the genie to come out and play today he instead thought to introduce me to some magic smoke, and like that he was gone (In other wo...
This is the last week of the challengeThe hardware and software are almost completed, so it's time to build the real hat. In a previous post, I started building some parts of the hat.First of all, I cut out from plywood a circle that will be the ...
Disable the bridgeAs mentioned in previous episodes the plan was to remove the bridge as that provided much more functionality than it needed to and it also provided root access to the Linino side from the Arduino code. Hans thought would replace it ...
As a dramatic closing exercise to the Enchanted Objects parade, I chose to try and build a C MQTT client for the SAMA5D4.It turned out to be not dramatic at all. It was rather easy. Here's my log of the activities. My ToolSet&n...
When I was making the Topsy Turvy Clock I created a non blocking delay class so that the Arduino could be doing other things whilst waiting for a timeout. This avoids the use of the delay function which otherwise "blocks" the operation until the time...
Thanks to the Text-To_Speech engine, I can easily add a nice function to the MagicHat: the capability to say wisdom phrases while it's idlingThe implementation will be based on a web service that provides quotes as a JSON documentI found a lot of alt...
The bridgeHans had been spending too much time inside coding. So this morning he went for a wander down by the stream. As he neared the town he saw the new bridge that had been put in so that the children could cross the stream to get to the school. ...
This is just a quick update, I have created a library that will calculate the sunrise and sunset times for any location for the current day, and whether or not that location is currently in daylight savings or not. This is an update here because the ...
Hi everyone, it is Chrystal with the update. First of all, my Dad told me that the temperature will be voice controlled, AFTER I GOT IT WORKING!!! So I spent all day today (after school) and added it into the voice program, haha to him, it works...
A trip up the fellMatilda looked serious, she was dressed in a boiler suit, boots and a hard hat, she was leaning on a pickaxe. "Do you remember that watch my father gave you as a wedding present?", Hans nodded and took it out of his waistcoat pocket...
